IN their Your City publication of July 2005 City of York Council considered that 21 per cent of our waste was kitchen and garden rubbish, and we have been told that only garden waste should be put in our new "green bin".

Let's assume that ten per cent is garden waste and 11 per cent is kitchen waste.

Now Elizabeth Wray, York's waste service project officer, is telling us green waste now makes up to one third of the contents of our rubbish bin (Letters, August 15).

Whichever is correct, and based on the fact that the bins will be emptied every two weeks, the green bin will be somewhere between 20 per cent and 66 per cent full whereas the grey bin will be overflowing by 80 per cent or 34 per cent.

Fortunately, I recycle my paper and card (via Bishopthorpe Scout collection), metal and glass (via City of York) and compost most of my garden and kitchen waste.

However, based on the July Your City article, this still produces an overflow of more than 30 per cent.

What are we expected to do with the extra waste overflowing from our bins?

Stewart Harrison,

Keble Park South,

Bishopthorpe,

York.

Updated: 11:18 Friday, August 19, 2005